who paints the most beautiful whimsical portraits and she very kindly also sent me one of her magnets and a card with her prints on - I love them all! Thank you again Karen.

The heart I made is for someone who doesn't have a blog and she doesn't know her heart is coming from me, so I think it's safe to post some pictures now!

My heart started off a card shape which I covered with Plaster Cloth, embedded some tiny gems into and painted with acrylics and embellished with some small beads and finished with a hanging glass bead.

I made a little paper bag for the heart to go into based on a video tutorial from Roben Marie-Smith. If you want to see some beautiful examples of this

technique go and have a look at Jenxo's blog (thanks again for the link Jen!)

You may have guessed already, my swap partner's name is Vicky!

I hope she likes the colour green as she's getting a green ATC with an altered domino on too!

Sherry that green heart is beautiful and the bead work in the middle really sets it off. I have never seen plaster cloth used before and I'm delighted! The domino is lovely, I'm off to research plaster cloth, lol.